CA 98 Background Resources

Organized by
David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin
CONSTRUCTIVE CELLULAR AUTOMATA THEORY
November 14 - 17, 1998
Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jointly sponsored by SFI and the National Science
Foundation

HERE IS A COLLECTION OF RESOURCES ON THE WEB
WHICH PROVIDED HELPFUL BACKGROUND FOR PARTICIPANTS IN CA98.

Primordial Soup Kitchen
Your host's extensive, searchable CA archive
PSK Kitchen Sink
Links to quality web resources on CA and complex systems, some also listed below
Cellular Automaton FAQ
- A nice compilation, with an empirical slant, by Howard Gutowitz
Continuous Valued Cellular Automata for Nonlinear Wave Equations
- Fermi-Pasta-Ulam schemes and CAPOW experiments, by Ostrov and Rucker
Crystalline Computation
A very readable recent survey of the theory of reversible CA by Norm Margolus
Generalized Ants
Variants of Chris Langton's virtual ants, as studied by Propp et al.
The Oscillator Problem for Conway's Life
- Recent remarkable discoveries for Conway's Game by LifeList members
Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life
Paul Callahan's extraordinary archive and Java engine for LifeList discoveries
Rudy Rucker's Origins of CelLab
- A popular history of CA from Ulam and von Neumann through the 80s
SFI Artificial Life page
- The best gateway to A-Life
Wolfram's Collected CA Papers
- Empirical studies by one of the most influential CA pioneers
ZooLand
- An up-to-date cross-platform guide to A-Life and CA resources on the Web

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Workshop Schedule
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